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Language Arts

Grade 3

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Spectrum Language Arts

Grade 3 Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Grammar

Parts of SpeechLesson 1.1 Common and Proper Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Lesson 1.2 Abstract Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Lesson 1.3 Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Lesson 1.4 Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Lesson 1.5 Linking Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Review: Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Lesson 1.6 Adjectives and Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Lesson 1.7 Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Lesson 1.8 Conjunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Review: Adjectives, Articles, Adverbs, and Conjunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

SentencesLesson 1.9 Statements and Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Lesson 1.10 Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Lesson 1.11 Exclamations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Review: Sentence Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Lesson 1.12 Parts of a Sentence: Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Lesson 1.13 Parts of a Sentence: Predicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Lesson 1.14 Sentence Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Review: Parts of a Sentence, Sentence Fragments, and

Run-On Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Lesson 1.15 Combining Sentences: Subjects and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Lesson 1.16 Combining Sentences: Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Lesson 1.17 Combining Sentences: Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Review: Combining Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Chapter 2 Mechanics

CapitalizationLesson 2.1 Capitalizing the First Word in a Sentence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Lesson 2.2 Capitalizing Names and Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Lesson 2.3 Capitalizing Place Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Lesson 2.4 Capitalizing Dates and Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Lesson 2.5 Capitalizing Book, Movie, and Song Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Review: Capitalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

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PunctuationLesson 2.6 Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Lesson 2.7 Question Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Lesson 2.8 Exclamation Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Review: End Marks and Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Lesson 2.9 Commas with Dates, Cities, States, and Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Lesson 2.10 Commas in a Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Lesson 2.11 Commas in Compound Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Review: Comma Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Lesson 2.12 Punctuating Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Lesson 2.13 Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Review: Punctuating Dialogue and Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Chapter 3 Usage

Lesson 3.1 Subject-Verb Agreement: Addingsand es. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Lesson 3.2 Irregular Verbs: Am, Is, Are. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Lesson 3.3 Irregular Verbs: Has, Have. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Review: Subject-Verb Agreement and Irregular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Lesson 3.4 Forming the Past Tense by Adding ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Lesson 3.5 Irregular Past-Tense Verbs: Ate, Said, Grew,

Made, Rode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Lesson 3.6 Irregular Past-Tense Verbs: Gave, Flew, Brought,

Thought, Wrote. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Lesson 3.7 Forming the Future Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Review: Regular and Irregular Past-Tense Verbs andFuture-Tense Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Lesson 3.8 Contractions with Not, Will, and Have. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Lesson 3.9 Contractions with Am, Is, Are, and Would . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Lesson 3.10 Negative Words and Double Negatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Review: Contractions, Negative Words, and Double Negatives . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Lesson 3.11 Forming Plurals with sand es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Lesson 3.12 Irregular Plurals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Lesson 3.13 Singular Possessives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Lesson 3.14 Plural Possessives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Review: Regular and Irregular Plurals and Singular and

Plural Possessives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Lesson 3.15 Subject and Object Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Lesson 3.16 Comparative Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Lesson 3.17 Comparative Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

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Review: Subject and Object Pronouns, Comparative

Adjectives and Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Lesson 3.18 Synonyms and Antonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128Lesson 3.19 Homophones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Lesson 3.20 Multiple-Meaning Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Review: Synonyms, Antonyms, Homophones, and

Multiple-Meaning Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Chapter 4 Writers Guide

Lesson 4.1 Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Lesson 4.2 Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Lesson 4.3 Revising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Lesson 4.4 Proofreading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Lesson 4.5 Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Lesson 4.6 Writing a Paragraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Lesson 4.7 Writing a Friendly Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Lesson 4.8 Writing to Convince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

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Spectrum Spectrum Language Arts

Grade 3

Chapter 1 Lesson 1

Grammar: Parts of Speech

A common nouncan be a person, place, or thing.

teacher(person) museum(place)notebook(thing)

A proper nounis a noun that names a specific person, place, or thing.

Proper nouns are capitalized to show that they are important.

Here are some examples of common and proper nouns:

Common Nouns Proper Nouns

school Hickory Hills Elementary School

zoo Memphis Zoo

brother Alexander

city Tallahassee

day Sunday

cat Sasha

Complete It

Complete the sentences below with a noun from the box. If there is a P

after the space, use a proper noun. If there is a Cafter the space, use a

common noun.

Walnut High School

dog

Saturday

Jordan Lake

town

brother

1.Uncle Dale is taking me fishing at _____________________________ (P).

2.We will leave early on _______________________________ (P) morning.

3.My _______________________ (C), Kris, is coming with us.

4.Uncle Dale lives an hour away in a ___________(C) called Rockvale.

5.He is a math teacher at ______________________________________ (P).

6.Uncle Dales ___________ (C), Patches, always comes fishing with us.

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Chapter 1 Lesson 1


Identify It

Underline the nouns in the sentences below. Thenumber in parentheses will tell you how many

nouns there are. Above each noun, write Pfor

properor Cfor common.

1.Patches jumped into the rowboat. (2)

2.Kris and I put on our life jackets. (2)

3.Last August, we went to Griggs Lake. (2)

4.We stopped at Elmwood Historic Car Museum on the way home. (2)

5.We caught six fish on our trip. (2)

6.Uncle Dale cooked them on the grill. (2)

7.Mom made some coleslaw and potatoes. (3)

Try It

1.Write a sentence using at least two common nouns. Circle the nouns.

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

2.Write a sentence using two proper nouns and one common noun.

Circle the common noun. Underline the proper nouns.

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

NAME

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Chapter 1 Lesson 2


Abstract nounsare nouns that you cant

experience with your five senses. Theyare feelings, concepts, and ideas. Some

examples are friendship, childhood,

bravery, hope, and pride.

Identify It

Underline the abstract noun or nouns in each sentence below.

1.Mayas honesty is one of the reasons we are best friends.

2.Martin Luther King, Jr., wanted to change hate and injustice in the

world.

3.Dariuss patriotism is the reason he joined the army.

4. I love the delight on my sisters face on her birthday.

5.Your kindness will not be forgotten.

6.Benji felt great pride when his team won the championship.

7.What are your parents best stories about their childhood?

8. It is important to me that you always tell the truth.

NAME

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Chapter 1 Lesson 2


Complete It

Fill in each blank below with an abstract noun from the box.

wisdom

courage

liberty

joy

freedom

kindness

knowledge

1.Our country was founded on the ideas of _______________________ and

_______________________ for all.

2. It took great _______________________ to rebuild after the hurricane.

3.Uncle Zanes _______________________ of birds amazes me.

4. The room was filled with _______________________ when Will found his lost

puppy.

5.Neighbors showed us much _______________________

when my baby sister was born.

6.Grandpa has the _______________________ that

comes with a long life.

Try It

Write three sentences that use abstract nouns. You may

use abstract nouns from the exercises or think of your own.

1.____________________________________________________________________

2.____________________________________________________________________

3.____________________________________________________________________

NAME

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Chapter 1 Lesson 3


A pronounis a word that takes the place of a noun. Pronouns keep you

from using the same noun or nouns over and over again.

Some pronouns take the place of a single person or thing: I, me, you, he,

she, him, her, and it. Other pronouns take the place of plural nouns: we, us,

they, and them.

In the examples below, pronouns take the place of the underlined nouns.

The grizzly bears waded into the stream.

Theywaded into the stream.

Molly finished her report at noon.

Shefinished her report at noon.

Put the bowl on the table.

Put iton the table.

Identify It

Read the paragraphs below. Circle each pronoun. You should find 15

pronouns.

Sonja Henie was an amazing figure skater. She was born in Oslo,

Norway, in 1912. When Sonja was only five years old, she won her first

skating contest. It was the start of a great career. She was a world

champion for ten years. People around the world became interested in

skating. They followed the career of the talented young girl.

Sonja also wanted to be a movie star. She moved to Hollywood and

began acting. She also performed in a traveling ice show. It was very

popular. Huge crowds came to watch Sonja perform. They could not getenough of her. Sonja enjoyed her fame and the money it brought her. But

her first and greatest love was always skating.

NAME

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Rewrite It

Read the sentences below. Rewrite each sentence usinga pronoun in place of the underlined noun or nouns.

Example: David kicked the ball toward the goal.

Hekicked the ball toward the goal.

1.Bryan and Anna had their first skating lesson on Tuesday.

_____________________________________________________________________

2.Bryan had never skated before.

_____________________________________________________________________

3. The ice was slick and shiny.

_____________________________________________________________________

4. The teacher helped Anna tighten the skates.

_____________________________________________________________________

5. The teacher told Bryan and Anna that they did a great job.

_____________________________________________________________________

Try It

1. Think about the first time you tried something new. Write a sentence

about your experience. Circle the pronoun.

_____________________________________________________________________

2.Write a sentence using the pronoun he, she, or it.

_____________________________________________________________________

NAME

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Chapter 1 Lesson 4


Verbsare often action words. They tell what happens in a sentence. Every

sentence has a verb.

Ramon puton his running shoes. He grabbedhis headphones. He

openedthe door and tooka deep breath. Ramon stretchedfor a few

minutes. Then, he randown the street toward the park.

Complete It

A verb is missing from each sentence below. Complete the sentences with

verbs from the box.

breathed

gave

moved

kept

attached

carried

invented

helped

1. In 1819, August Siebe __________________ the first diving suit.

2. The large helmet __________________ to a leather and canvas suit.

3.Weights __________________ divers stay underwater.

4. The divers underwater __________________ air through hoses.

5.Later on, rubber suits __________________ divers dry.

6. The invention of scuba gear __________________ divers more freedom.

7.Divers __________________ from place to place on their own.

8. They __________________ their air with them.

NAME

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Chapter 1 Lesson 4


Identify It

Circle the 10 action verbs in the paragraphs below.

Jacques Cousteau explored many of Earths oceans. In 1950, he

bought a ship called Calypso. On the Calypso, Jacques traveled to bodies

of water around the world. He wrote many books and made many movies

about his travels. He won prizes for some of his work. Jacques also invented

things, like an underwater camera and the first scuba equipment.

Jacques Cousteau believed it was important to protect ocean life. He

created a group called the Cousteau Society. More than 300,000 people

belong to the Cousteau Society today.

Try It

1.Write a sentence about a place you would like to visit one day. Circle

the verb.

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________

2.Write a sentence about your favorite thing to do during the weekend.

Circle the verb.

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

NAME

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Chapter 1 Lesson 5


A linking verblinks the subject to the rest of the sentence. Linking verbs are

not action words.

The verb to beis a linking verb. Some different forms of the verb to beare

is, am, are, was, and were. Some other linking verbs are become, feel, and

seem.

Identify It

Read the sentences below. Underline the linking verbs. Circle the action

verbs. Some sentences may have more than one verb.

1.My grandmother is a marine biologist.

2.She studies undersea life.

3.She was always a good student.

4.She loved the ocean and animals as a child.

5. It was hard for her to become a scientist.

6.When she was young, some people felt women could not be good

at science.

7.My grandma proved she was smart and hardworking.

8.One day, I might become a marine biologist myself.

NAME

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Chapter 1 Lesson 5


Solve It

Use the linking verbs from the box to complete each sentence. Some maywork for more than one sentence. Then, look for the linking verbs in the

word search puzzle. Circle each word you find.

1.Today, my grandfather

__________________ a stage actor.

2.He first __________________ a

movie star at the age of 22.

3.He __________________ lucky to have

had such an amazing career.

4. I __________________ going to see

him in a Broadway play next week.

5.When my dad __________________

little, he was in one of Grandpas

movies.

Try It

1.Write a sentence using a linking verb.

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

2.Write a sentence using a linking verb and an action verb.

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

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